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This Upper Basilica fresco cycle in Assisi depicts the life of Saint Francis of Assisi. Created between the late 13th and early 14th centuries by artists including Cimabue and Giotto’s workshop, it represents a pivotal moment in artistic development showcasing proto-Renaissance techniques like buon...
Giotto’s “The Kiss of Judas” (c. 1305) is a pivotal fresco within the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua. This Buon Fresco work depicts a profoundly emotional moment – Christ's betrayal – with stark realism for its time. Giotto’s innovative approach to narrative storytelling, anticipating the Renaissance pro...
Giotto’s Lamentation over the Dead Christ, painted circa 1305 in Padua’s Scrovegni Chapel, is a pivotal fresco showcasing early Renaissance innovation. Buon fresco technique creates vibrant color and detail depicting the Virgin Mary and John the Evangelist mourning Jesus after his crucifixion. This...
The Ognissanti Madonna is a large tempera-and-gold panel painted by Giotto di Bondone around 1310, probably for the Church of Ognissanti in Florence, and now in the Uffizi Gallery. It shows the Virgin and Child enthroned beneath a Gothic canopy and surrounded by angels and saints. Giotto gives the t...
The Bardi Chapel fresco cycle is a group of paintings by Giotto and his workshop in the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence, generally dated to the early 14th century. Dedicated to Saint Francis of Assisi, the cycle depicts episodes including his renunciation of worldly goods, appearance before the...
Giotto's Peruzzi Chapel fresco cycle (c. 1320) in Santa Croce, Florence, illustrates scenes from the lives of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist and was particularly admired by Michelangelo for its monumental figure style.
The Stefaneschi Altarpiece is a double-sided polyptych produced by Giotto and his workshop around 1320 for Old St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Cardinal Giacomo Gaetani Stefaneschi commissioned it for an altar associated with Saint Peter and appears within the work as a kneeling donor holding a model o...
The Bologna Polyptych is a multi-panel altarpiece painted by Giotto and his workshop around 1330, now in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna. Its central image of the Virgin and Child is flanked by standing saints beneath pointed Gothic arches. The work combines a traditional devotional format with...
Multi-panel altarpiece attributed to Giotto (c. 1301–1302), made for the Badia Fiorentina in Florence; its panels are now dispersed across several museum collections.
